Organizing Playbook Pt. 4: Is Rest Resistance?
Native Land Pod
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4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Gillum goes LIVE with Gen Z organizer Deyona Burton who shares her insight into how self-care and activism go hand in hand.
Burton first made waves in 2020 when she led the effort to change the name of her Florida highschool from “Robert E. Lee” to “Riverside” High. Then, while attending FSU, Deyona Burton rose to national prominence as the Director of Programs for College Democrats of America. Her accolades include being honored at the White House, an impactful TEDx talk, earning the President’s Volunteer Service Award, and being named the 2024 National Action Network’s MLK Youth Honoree.
Having contributed to campaigns and worked within offices at local, state, and national levels, Deyona now continues her mission to drive change from Washington, D.C.
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| 0:42.2 | What's up, what's up, everybody? |
| 0:47.4 | This is Andrew Gillum, coming to you from a little bit of a change of scenery. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm so tired of my office and doing these episodes. |
| 0:56.3 | I don't know, like, I'm going to the living room today. But most importantly, we're continuing our conversation on this series of, you know, organizing in the aftermath of |
| 1:02.7 | Trump 2.0. And I was a little bit concerned about some of the recent writing I've seen on the black community sort of taking a rest, a break, and not yet being willing to be on the front lines of organizing and movement. |
| 1:22.2 | I reject that outright. I know that not to be true as a matter of fact. |
| 1:27.3 | But we do see a lot of conversation |
| 1:29.8 | on social media and elsewhere about basically, you know, for black women, look, we're the 98%. |
| 1:35.6 | We're the one 90s we're there. We're tried and true. Now it's something for you all to do. |
| 1:42.4 | So we know that it exists. It's not coming out of thin air. |
| 1:45.6 | And today, to help me sort of diagnose this, to drill a little bit deeper for just a few |
| 1:51.5 | minutes of our day, because I'm sure you all out there are engaging in this conversation |
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